As you may know, I do a great deal of work from Strong Mind Climbing these days, be it remote coaching, instructing or writing online courses. I also write for the Strong Mind blog from time to time, so thought I would put some of the most useful resources here.
Here’s a piece I wrote about visualisation in climbing.
This is a technique I’ve used all of my climbing life, but working as a mental training coach for Strong Mind has allowed me to reflect on how this tool works.
If you’ve read my account of climbing Indian Face, this might interest you too.
A question I hear a lot is “What’s the difference between sport climbing and trad climbing?”
It’s a really good question and ties in to a lot of other questions about climbing styles and disciplines. Style is surprisingly important to climbers and makes a huge difference to your experience.
In this piece I try to lay all of that out, and catch some of the other queries that come with it.
A big part of the work I do is around falling. As someone that works in mental training for climbing, and is also an instructor, this is naturally a big area for me.
Unfortunately, it’s very easy to get fall practice wrong – and people very often do. This means that you can end up making fear of falling much worse simply by following common intuitions around falling.
That’s why I wrote this piece to cast some light on this very important issue. Any questions – get in touch.
Lastly, I made this fun gift guide.
As a climber, I’ve learnt that I’m kind of hard to buy for. For my own sake and the sake of everyone that loves climbers, I made this gift guide.
It’s a bit of fun, but also kind of useful! Let me know what you think.
Angus Kille 